Sanitary breathing-shield.



B. G. GUNNARSON.

SANITARY BREATHING SHIELD.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 21, 1914.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

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JENOCH C. GUNNARSON, OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY.

SANITARY BREATHING-SHIELD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

atented net. a min,

Application filed September 21, 1914. Serial No. 862,853.

shield or guard to be worn by barbers, dentists, doctors, and the likewhereby the person being worked upon may be protected from inhaling thebreath of the operator.

An important object is the provision of a shield of this character whichis engaged upon the bridge of the Wearers nose and which willconsequently not interfere with his vision.

A further object is the provision of a device of this character whichwill be extremely simple and inexpensive in manufacture, light inweight, easily cleaned and a general improvement of the art.

With these and other objects and advantages in view, the inventionconsists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts as will behereinafter more fully described and claimed, and illustrated in theaccompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a persons head showing my device inposition. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of my device detached, and Fig. 3is a cross sectional View thercthrough.

Referring more particularly to the drawing the numeral 5 designates mydevice as a whole which is formed preferably of celluloid, formed into ashape as shown to provide an upper comparatively straight portion 6 anda lower refiexly curved portion 7, the upper portion 6 being adapted tobe disposed over the wearers nose and thelower portion 7 being vadaptedto extend down below the lower lip. The portions 6 and 7 are formedintegrally and terminate laterally in side portions 8 and abottomportion 9,

the edgesof the side portions 8 and bottom portion 9 being rolled asshown at 10 in order that danger of cutting the wearers face iseliminated. In order that the shield thus formed may be secured upon thewearer,

'I provide extensions 11 at the junctions of the side edges 10 and thetop edge 12. These extensions 11 have their edges rolled as shown at 13so as not to cause an abrasion of the wearers skin. In order that theextensions 11 may have a securer grip, T provide them preferably withstrips 14 of cork.

The device is applied by engagingthe extensions 11 upon the wearers noseand the device will be held in position by virtue of the naturalresilience of the celluloid.

From the foregoing description and a study of the drawing it will beapparent that T have thus provided a simple, novel,

and efiicient shield which will prevent the breath of an operator frombeing blown into the face of the person being worked upon. The advantageof my device is particularly obvious when it is worn by barbers andothers, especially as barbers in particular have the obnoxious habit ofbreathing into ones face while performing their operation and thusconsequently endangering the health of the person being worked upon bythe transmission of germs.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A shield comprising a casing of resilient material shaped to fit overthe front, bottom and sides of the nose, the upper ends of the sides ofthe casing having nose engaging clips thereon in position to be heldyieldingly in nose clamping relation to each other through the medium ofthe resilience of the material of the casing.

2. A shield comprising a casing of resilient material shaped to fit overthe front,

.. bottom and sides of the nose, the extreme lower portion extendingbelow the lowerlip,

the edges of the sides and bottom portion' being rolled, extensionsformed integrally upon the upper ends of the sides and having rollededges, and strips of cork secured upon said extensions, said extensionsbeing maintained in nose clamping relation to each other through themedium of the resilience of the casing.

In testimony whereof, I afix-my signature, in the presence of twowitnesses.

ENOCH IO. GUNNARSON.

Witnesses:

Cnanrns H. Annnncrrr, Fnnnn H. Donovan.

